I'm in the mood to discover some new authors, and I'd like to accomplish this by reading some short story collections. I've been reading a lot of Science Fiction lately, and would like to go back to fantasy for a while.

Some of my favorite stories deal with either magical artifacts or magically created undead. (I have little interest in the undead that come from "infections" which somehow change people in a few seconds)

Although it has been quite a while, if memory serves, one of my favorite stories dealing with undead or death was Raymond Feist's book Silverthorn. I don't have it on me, but I seem to remember a passage in there where some necromancers tried to control some of the undead that were attacking, and the power behind the undead laughed at the necromancers through the mouths of the undead they were controlling. It brought chills to the back of my neck, and I haven't read anything that truly sticks in my memory since then. Of course, some of my favorite undead in books have been Death Knight Lord Soth (Dragonlance) and Jander Sunstar, a reluctant vampire from Ravenloft.

My absolute favorite stories have been magical artifact stories. I like stories about magical artifacts, rings, what have you. I liked the Darksword series - I guess that is the only series I can actually think of, though I have read several stories in Dragonlance short story collections that dealt with artifacts such as these.

Can anyone recommend a short story collection that focuses either on stories of magically animated undead or on magical artifacts? Thank you so much, and I appreciate you sharing your favorites!

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I'm in the mood to discover some new authors, and I'd like to accomplish this by reading some short story collections. I've been reading a lot of Science Fiction lately, and would like to go back to fantasy for a while.

Some of my favorite stories deal with either magical artifacts or magically created undead. (I have little interest in the undead that come from "infections" which somehow change people in a few seconds)

Although it has been quite a while, if memory serves, one of my favorite stories dealing with undead or death was Raymond Feist's book Silverthorn. I don't have it on me, but I seem to remember a passage in there where some necromancers tried to control some of the undead that were attacking, and the power behind the undead laughed at the necromancers through the mouths of the undead they were controlling. It brought chills to the back of my neck, and I haven't read anything that truly sticks in my memory since then. Of course, some of my favorite undead in books have been Death Knight Lord Soth (Dragonlance) and Jander Sunstar, a reluctant vampire from Ravenloft.

My absolute favorite stories have been magical artifact stories. I like stories about magical artifacts, rings, what have you. I liked the Darksword series - I guess that is the only series I can actually think of, though I have read several stories in Dragonlance short story collections that dealt with artifacts such as these.

Can anyone recommend a short story collection that focuses either on stories of magically animated undead or on magical artifacts? Thank you so much, and I appreciate you sharing your favorites!

This series might be interesting to you, even though it's not short stories and although it doesn't include magical artifacts or animated undead, it's in that same vein of mythical fantasy. It's a series by Neil Gaiman, the first book is called American Gods and the second is Anansi Boys. They center around the Gods of old times and various cultures creation myths of the world. The first book won tons of awards when it came out and I enjoyed it but liked the second book even more than the first book.

Salvatore is already on my list. I tend to switch back and forth between westerns, sci-fi and fantasy, but I also seem to read the same ~ dozen authors, mostly. I realized I needed to force myself to get a bit more variety, so I came up with a list of 50 authors. I purposefully included a few autobiographies, genres like mystery that I normally wouldn't even try, and well thought of authors like Hemingway that I usually wouldn't even consider. Salvatore happens to be an author I haven't read yet, mostly because I have stuck with reading Dragonlance only, and no Forgotten Realms so far. I wrote down my list of 50 authors on little pieces of paper, and whenever I need a new book I'll just randomly pick one out.

I'm still deciding what books need to go with the last dozen or so of the authors, though, so I thought I would read some short stories and perhaps discover another author to like.

Salvatore is already on my list. I tend to switch back and forth between westerns, sci-fi and fantasy, but I also seem to read the same ~ dozen authors, mostly. I realized I needed to force myself to get a bit more variety, so I came up with a list of 50 authors. I purposefully included a few autobiographies, genres like mystery that I normally wouldn't even try, and well thought of authors like Hemingway that I usually wouldn't even consider. Salvatore happens to be an author I haven't read yet, mostly because I have stuck with reading Dragonlance only, and no Forgotten Realms so far. I wrote down my list of 50 authors on little pieces of paper, and whenever I need a new book I'll just randomly pick one out.

I'm still deciding what books need to go with the last dozen or so of the authors, though, so I thought I would read some short stories and perhaps discover another author to like.

For mysteries, the Tony Hillerman books are very good. They're set on the Navaho reservation in New Mexico.

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